Network bridge usage.

[peter@easthope.ca]

Greetings for the New Year to Debian users,

Verifying and updating instructions here.
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon/ETH_Oberon/QEMUinstall#Network_Connection_on_a_Virtual_Machine
Questions (1) and (2) follow.

root@joule:/home/root# ip link show br0
4: br0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mo
de DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 92:e0:54:07:2a:e2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

br0 is a virtual interface; not connected to hardware.
(1) How is address 92:e0:54:07:2a:e2 derived?

Currently,
root@joule:/home/root# ip addr show br0
4: br0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN gr
oup default qlen 1000
    link/ether 92:e0:54:07:2a:e2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.0.2.1/24 brd 10.0.2.255 scope global br0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fd99:9999:9999:9999::1/64 scope global tentative
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

The example in the documentation has these two additional lines.
  inet6 fe80::3082:6ff:feb6:c02a/64 scope link
    valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

(2) Why is the second inet6 address omitted from the current result?


Thanks,               ... P.




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